Voltaire and the triumph of the Enlightenment
Lectures on the life and times of the French philosopher Voltaire.
| Main Author: | Kors, Alan Charles. |
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| Other Authors: | Teaching Company. |
| Format: | Cassette |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
[Arlington, VA] :
Teaching Co.,
[2001]
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| Physical Description: |
6 audiocassettes (approximately 360 min.) : analog, Dolby processed + 1 course guidebook (ii, 68 pages ; 22 cm.) |
| Series: |
Great courses (Audiocassette)
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| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- lecture 1. The patriarch, an overview
- lecture 2. The education of a philosophe
- lecture 3. Philosophical letters, part I
- lecture 4. Philosophical letters, part II
- lecture 5. The years at Cirey
- lecture 6. From optimism to humanism
- lecture 7. Voltaire and the "philosophical tale"
- lecture 8. Voltaire at Ferney
- lecture 9. Voltaire and God
- lecture 10. Voltaire and history
- lecture 11. Voltaire and toleration
- lecture 12. Apotheosis.